INTUITED Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

intuited

verb

past tense of intuit

as in understood

to have a clear idea of an imaginative genius like Shakespeare could intuit the thoughts, feelings, and motives of a vast array of characters

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Recent Examples of intuited This aspect of nature was intuited by Galileo some four centuries ago, and clarified in depth by the subsequent history of mechanics. — Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026 Is there a chance the markets collectively intuited that this could prove to be the last-ever oil shock? — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 June 2026 The Knicks understood when to hold back and intuited when to become aggressive. — Fred Katz, New York Times, 26 May 2026 British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, who took part in a peyote ceremony with a First Nations group the Red Pheasant Band in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1956, intuited the necessity of community, empathy, and ego renunciation during the psychedelic process. — Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026 Advertisement The leaders of the communist and Nazi parties—both hostile to Germany’s democratic institutions, albeit for different reasons—understood, or intuited, that political violence could erode democracy itself. — Time, 23 Oct. 2025 Irving may have intuited, at the dawn of American history, that the nation would need a foil for flintier heroes like Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, self-improvers like the Benjamin Franklin of the Autobiography, and secular saints such as Parson Weems’s George Washington. — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025 There’s deeper meaning to some of the other imagery in the music video than might first be intuited by viewers. — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Oct. 2025 Or the way his hips flip to the exact angle his brain intuited. — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025

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And the latest archaeoacoustic techniques show that even the world’s earliest architects understood this.

— Jacqueline Ortoleva, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2026
That leaves room for disputes in which both sides agree the job began as at will but disagree about what was understood later.

— William Jones, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of understood

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Bella chews him out for punching Angus in the face right before Angus’s big presentation, which Johnny knew about because they were supposed to throw a return supper for him, a dinner Johnny was supposed to cook.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Drivers knew the back entrances, the factory layouts, and the best path to the boss of a mom-and-pop workshop.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of knew

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But a more apt comparison might be the Mirabilia Urbis Romae, in which Medieval scholars deciphered the staggering ruins of Classical Rome.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2026
Re-creating the Herculaneum scrolls To date, one entire scroll and passages from others have been deciphered, largely thanks to the Vesuvius Challenge, a project launched in 2023 that encourages researchers to decode scrolls for cash prizes.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of deciphered

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Curie's initial Nobel was for physics, but the second, for chemistry in 1911, recognized her work on polonium and the isolation of pure radium.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
He is recognized as the teen prodigy who went missing a decade prior, and his return as an up-and-coming conductor is heralded.

— Kayti Burt, Time, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of recognized

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The polling points to the enduring legacy of 9/11, even as many Americans today are too young to have experienced or comprehended the event a quarter-century ago.

— Linley Sanders, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
The frames keep changing regardless of how much the viewer has noticed or comprehended.

— Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Definition of comprehended

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So all three of your adaptations have grasped quite the attention before even coming out.

— Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
When visiting Ground Zero, Surdo said he was struck by the scale and the enormity of the destruction and the sulfurish smell, which were two things that couldn’t be grasped by seeing the site on television.

— Andis Robeznieks, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of grasped

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Food and drink A world tour of flavors and cuisines can be appreciated at one of the six onsite restaurants and bars.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
The combined engineering of spatial, acoustic and visual experiences is, perhaps, still not fully appreciated.

— Jacqueline Ortoleva, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2026

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